Every January, 83-year-old Olga Murray of northern California goes to southwestern Nepal for the annual Maghe Sankranti winter festival. That's where she can find impoverished Tharu farmers selling their daughters to higher caste families to work as domestic slaves.
Women-Children-Crisis event Columbia University, 4/1
Published April 1, 2009
Event date:
April 1, 2009 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting presents Women - Children - Crisis. Three journalists will share their stories from Nepal, Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. See the journalists projects at Nepal: Olga's Girls, The Roots of Ethnic Conflict in Eastern DRC and Iraq: Death of a Nation?
Wednesday, April 1
7-9 p.m.
Reception Following
Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism
3rd Floor Lecture Hall, 116th and Broadway
Co-Sponsored by Career Services at the Graduate School of Journalism
Meredith May, feature writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and a professor at Mills College in Oakland, reported this winter on child indentured servants in western Nepal.
Michael Kavanagh, a specialist on the Great Lakes ethnic conflicts, has made three month-long trips to eastern Congo in the past year, reporting for The World, World Focus, NPR and Slate.
Alaa Majeed, an Iraqi journalist who worked in McClatchy's Baghdad bureau, is a winner of the 2007 Courage in Journalism Award. She was in Iraq this winter, reunited with her two sons after years apart.
Project
The Pulitzer Center partnered with CUNY on "The World Through Women's Eyes," a film festival highlighting work by and about women around the world.
Join us for a screening of short films by Pulitzer Center journalists followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.
